The Spider (Die Spinne)
George Grosz
1914
Medium
drypoint with monoprint in brown and black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 16.99 × 11.75 cm (6 11/16 × 4 5/8 in.) sheet: 34.45 × 28.26 cm (13 9/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2002.140.1
About the Artist
George Grosz
George Grosz (1893–1959) was a German-American artist whose savage satirical drawings and paintings became some of the most powerful visual critiques of militarism, capitalism, and social decay in twentieth-century art. Born Georg Ehrenfried Gross in Berlin, he studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and the Berlin School of Arts and Crafts before serving in World War I, an experience that rad...